Severe seafood poisoning in French Polynesia: a retrospective analysis of 129 medical files.
Gatti C1, Oelher E, Legrand AM.
Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology.Toxicon.2008 Apr;51(5):746-53. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2007.11.025. Epub 2007 Dec 5.
We present a retrospective study of 129 medical files concerning seafood poisonings (SFPs) registered at the central hospital of Tahiti (French Polynesia) between 1999 and 2005. Even if during that period most of the described cases (96%) concerned the ichtyosarcotoxism ciguatera, it is interesting
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